Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei

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Hojjatol-Islam Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie is the current head of the Ministry of Intelligence in Iran, also known as SAVAMA or VEVAK and was appointed by the current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on August 24, 2005. This organisation replaced SAVAK, the late Shah's intelligence ministry, which operated with few judicial or legal limits prior to the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

He was born in Ejiyeh, a central province of Isfahan, Iran in 1956. He was a student of Haghani School and received a Masters in International Law after studying abroad for several years. He has served as head of The Ministry of Intelligence in Iran’s select committee from 1984-85. He was a representative of the Judiciary Chief to the Information Ministry from 1986-88. He was the head of the prosecutor’s office for Economic Affairs from 1989-90. Then, he served as the Judiciary Chief’s Representative to the Information Ministry from 1991-94. He was the prosecutor of the Special Court for Clerics from 1995-97.

He has been the Prosecutor General of the Special Court for Clerics since 1996 and he was also head of the Judicial Complex for Government Employees as well as his ministerial responsibilities. He is considered to be a conservative hardliner.

[edit] Biting incident

In May 2004, In a meeting between Mohseni-Ejeie (who was at the time the Chief Prosecutor for Crimes of Government Employees, a hardliner Iranian Judiciary faction responsible for imprisonment of many reformist activists and newspaper shut downs) and Issa Saharkhiz (reformist journalist and newspaper publishers representative) Mohseni-Ejeie physically attacked Saharkhiz initially with a sugar bowl and then severely biting his arm^[1]^[2]. Saharkhiz later stated that a dispute over an article about male and female relationships caused Mohseni-Ejeie to attack him. He also said he is going to file a law suite against Mohseni-Ejeie but as Mohseni-Ejeie is the Chief Prosecutor for Crimes of Government Employees, he will be both the judge and the defendant in the case therefore there is little hope a fair result will come out of the case.